diff --git a/sql/hive-thriftserver/src/main/java/org/apache/hive/service/cli/session/HiveSessionImpl.java b/sql/hive-thriftserver/src/main/java/org/apache/hive/service/cli/session/HiveSessionImpl.java
index e073fa4713bfb..7f499c75f11ba 100644
--- a/sql/hive-thriftserver/src/main/java/org/apache/hive/service/cli/session/HiveSessionImpl.java
+++ b/sql/hive-thriftserver/src/main/java/org/apache/hive/service/cli/session/HiveSessionImpl.java
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 import java.io.FileInputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.util.HashSet;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
@@ -171,7 +172,7 @@ protected BufferedReader loadFile(String fileName) throws IOException {
       FileInputStream initStream = null;
       BufferedReader bufferedReader = null;
       initStream = new FileInputStream(fileName);
-      bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(initStream));
+      bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(initStream, StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
       return bufferedReader;
     }